Lacrosse Goalie Battles
Some of the best lacrosse goalies in the college game do battle every weekend, so we decided to start chronicling these Lacrosse Goalie Battles.
Shellenberger & #3 Virginia Drop #1 Notre Dame, Maryland & Duke Win (LaxFactor Podcast #249)
College lacrosse will have a new #1 on Monday as #3 Virginia upended Notre Dame’s hopes of holding the top spot beyond this weekend by defeating the Irish on the road, 15-10. Connor Shellenberger tore up Notre Dame for 2 goals and 5 assists and teammate Xander Dickson...
Shellenberger & #3 Virginia Drop #1 Notre Dame, Maryland & Duke Win (LaxFactor Podcast #249)
College lacrosse will have a new #1 on Monday as #3 Virginia upended Notre Dame’s hopes of holding the top spot beyond this weekend by defeating the Irish on the road, 15-10. Connor Shellenberger tore up Notre Dame for 2 goals and 5 assists and teammate Xander Dickson...
Tewaaraton Award Update, Shellenberger & Kavanaugh Still Leading The Pack (LaxFactor Podcast #248)
In the 2023 Tewaaraton Award race, two guys stand out from the rest. Connor Shellenberger (Virginia) and Pat Kavanaugh (Notre Dame) are sitting at the top of my 5-man list at the moment because their production matches their teams success. With Virginia and Notre Dame...
Maryland, Penn & Harvard, Victorious In Overtime, Ruppel Saves Terps Day (LaxFactor Podcast #247)
#4 Maryland - 14 (OT)#1 Virginia - 13 Both teams had toyed around with owning the lead with neither fully committing to owning it resulting in overtime and one of the best games I imagine we’ll see all year with the bulk of the insane action coming with under 3...
Hopkins Drops Syracuse, Rutgers Takes Princeton, Penn State Kills All Ivys (LaxFActor Podcast #246)
We had another great group of college lacrosse games to watch on Saturday including Johns Hopkins and Syracuse at the dome, Princeton and Rutgers doing battle in Dirty Jersey, Penn State proves they are in fact the Ivy League Killers as evidenced by their 3-0 record...
Duke Tops Syracuse In Overtime, Virginia Rips Hopkins & Weekend Previews (LaxFactor Podcast #245)
This college lacrosse weekend preview show is going to quickly become a recap show with all of the killer games being played between Sundays and Tuesdays. In this episode I’m going to recap the Duke vs Syracuse tilt at the Dome on Sunday as well as Tuesday’s contest...
Notre Dame Needs 3OT’s To Top Maryland, Georgtown Gets First Win & More (LaxFactor Podcast #244)
What a weekend of college lacrosse we got to enjoy on Saturday. Notre Dame needed 3OT's to figure out if they were going to beat the Terps or drop one on the road. Lynchburg outplayed Salisbury for the majority of the game, but some bad bounces and rebounds resulted...
College Lacrosse Previews: Notre Dame vs Maryland, Duke vs Syracuse & More (LaxFactor Podcast #243)
So we had a couple of interesting games on Sunday, I’ll talk about those including Brown’s dismantling of Vermont. There is a big game tonight (Wednesday) with Towson hosting Loyola. The Greyhounds will be looking to bounce back after losing last weekend to...
Gettysburg Upsets Salisbury, Notre Dame Beats Up Georgetown & More (LaxFActor Podcast #242)
Today we’re going to do something different because we had a big upset in the DIII ranks so I’m going to start today’s show out with #2 Salisbury hitting the road to take on #7 Gettysburg. Lots of people were wondering if Salisbury deserved the #1 ranking after...
College Lacrosse Previews: Notre Dame vs Georgetown, OSU vs UVA & More (LaxFactor Podcast #241)
I want to start this episode by talking about Ohio State's big win over North Carolina on Sunday and after that we'll dive into all of the matchups for this weekend that are worth watching. North Carolina - 5Ohio State - 8 Carolina played around with controlling this...
Maryland Drops Syracuse, Penn Takes Down Georgetown, Loyola Over Hopkins & More (LaxFactor Podcast #240)
Week two of college lacrosse didn’t bring as high a percentage of upsets, but we still had them, and we also had a slew of games that required sudden death and lacrosse fans all over the world saw that it was good. #18 Syracuse - 12#9 Maryland - 15 Maryland jumped out...
College Lacrosse Previews: Syracuse vs Maryland, Georgetown vs Penn & More (LaxFactor Podcast #239)
#18 Syracuse @ #9 Maryland (Saturday) Last Meeting: 2/20/22, Maryland won 14-10 in the Dome This matchup is one of those games I hope Syracuse has worked on to the schedule as a matter of pride, you gotta play the best to have a shot at being the best. ...
Georgetown Falls To Hopkins, Maryland To Loyola, Duke To Jax & More (LaxFactor Podcast #238)
Friday night lacrosse was totally dwarfed by Saturday’s absolute chaos as we saw numerous updates, plenty of unexpected outcomes mixed with some butt kicking's. What started as a slate of games that didn’t expect to be all that exciting ended up being the opposite...
College Lacrosse Week #1 Previews: Virginia & Georgetown See Action (LaxFactor Podcast #237)
There are a few Friday night games I’ll talk about first with Syracuse being one of the teams that will play two games this weekend (ala Navy last weekend). UAlbany @ Syracuse Last Meeting: 2022, UAlbany won 14-12 at home This Albany matchup is a tough one to...
Syracuse Debuts New #22 Joey Spallina, Ohio State & Maryland Look Tough (LaxFactor Podcast #236)
First week of college lacrosse is in the books and we had a bunch of blow outs and very few surprises overall. I sat down to watch the games in my basement, aka mission control and had 4 games on at most points while drinking Blue Moon’s so it was a glorious...
Lacrosse Lines: Week #1 College Lacrosse Betting Research & Discussion (2/3/2023)
OK, I won’t ramble and will dive right into my thoughts on the lines for college lacrosse this weekend (week one) and to be clear, the lines are crap this week. I’d like to think this is going to be an easy week, but maybe the joke is on me… Coming In Hot… Johns...
College Lacrosse Previews (Week 1), Syracuse Looks To Rebound in 2023 (LaxFactor Podcast #235)
College lacrosse is officially upon us with a solid slate of early games. I'm going to start right off by talking about Syracuse trying to bounce back after a terrible show last season with Joey Spallina and their new look offense. Jacksonville is going to be looking...
College Lacrosse Conference Tournament Predictions For 2023, Virginia & Georgetown Lead The Pack (LaxFactor Podcast #234)
Lacrosse season is almost upon us. This upcoming Saturday we will have a near full slate of games to watch and entertain us. My original plan was to preview those games today, but I’m going to do that Wednesday, and today I’m going to dive into more of a...
Lacrosse Lines: College Lacrosse Futures Betting Research & Discussion (1/27/2023)
In this first episode of Lacrosse Lines, I'm going to talk a bit about futures odds for college lacrosse and where I think the smarter money is. This will never be betting or financial advice. I'm not telling you what college lacrosse games to bet on. I'm just sharing...
LaxFactor’s College Lacrosse Division I Pre-Season Top 5: #1 through #5 (LaxFactor Podcast #332)
Today's episode will bring my preseason top 20 poll coverage to an end. We'll talk about my top 5 teams, listed here in no particular order so as to not ruin the surprise... Cornell, Maryland, Virginia, Georgetown and Princeton. These teams all return huge names...
LaxFactor’s College Lacrosse Division I Pre-Season Top 10: #5 through #10 (LaxFactor Podcast #332)
Continuing on with the LaxFactor college Lacrosse Division I Pre-Season Poll, I'm going to rip through my #6 through #10 picks. I won't give away the order until you either read on, watch or listen, but today we'll talk about Penn, Notre Dame, Yale, Rutgers and Duke....